Opal Fruits??

I think I may have had a glass or two of Pinot while doing the online Tesco shop this week.  When it arrived I was quite excited at my vegan bits – cashews, pine nuts, peanut butter (yep lots of nuts), tasty new granola, arboria rice,  vegan parmesan, flat mushrooms, courgettes, broccoli, cauliflower, tofu, almond milk…. the list goes on!! Anyway as I unpacked my bags I pull out a bright yellow square bag – of Opal Fruits!! You can tell I was born in the 70s huh – Starburst as they’re known now.  I do remember reading that they were ‘accidentally vegan’ so they ended up in my cyber trolley.

You might guess by now that my vegan blog isn’t about fine dining or unusual dishes. Don’t get me wrong, I love to cook and I’m excited about cooking vegan, it’s invigorated a new passion actually for cooking but I’m also knackered a lot of the time and sometimes I just like to have a peanut butter sandwich!

Tonight’s dinner was a quick tomato sauce – I fried some garlic, onion and added some roughly chopped tomatoes and also a tin of tomatoes with some stock, green olives, black olives and some mushrooms.  I simmered it for 40 minutes (while I put the washing out, did some ironing, made sandwiches for the next day, fed the dog – you know the drill!)… and added some basil at the end.   I served it up with some wholewheat pasta and a sprinkling of vegetarian parmesan and a bunch of rocket.  It was really good.  Although I still miss cheese.  In fact I really really miss cheese.  I loved all cheese, cheddar, blue, brie, goats, halloumi – it’s the hardest part for me so far in making the change from Veggi to Vegan.  I’m almost four weeks in though so high fives!!

My main aim is to try and find some North Wales veggi places that I can actually go out and eat so if you know of anywhere please let me know!! Otherwise I may just have to start up my own place?!

Thanks for reading.  May the moo be with you!

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